Perfectly astute reflections on the three haps:
1. happiness, 2. mishaps, and 3. happenstances at both ends of The Empire State – The Middling City and The Shiney Apple. And elsewhere, if need be.

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature." - Cicero

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Working, of freakin' course, on The Book and yesterday found images alongside Niagara River on the tip of Grand Island, where Israel might have been located.The above image shows an inlet of marshlike proportions, where egrets, cranes, heron hang out on rocks and wade up to their knees in muck. Off on the hazy horizon the Middling City is visible.Yeterday's final gig was of a singing troupe of note. Like the singers who appeared on the Lawrence Welk show, they wear matching attire.The troupe's collective sense of humour was quite hilarious.We had a photo shoot in a rather humid auditorium of a regional small private college and by the end Yours Truly was ready for a gallon of water.One of the troupe's male members attempted to - or rather, did - tell an off-colour joke to the chagrin of every single person in the room.He forged on towards the punchline, and it involved an ethnic group, a sex toy, and chipped teeth.The entire front row groaned as he began this horrid joke, assuredly they had been treated to his jokiness before.Today made ports of an anesthesiologist, and one of my set-ups was with a machine used in the 40s. Four valves, color-coded: helium, nitrous oxide, and I forget the others. This did not assuage my fear of being put to sleep - in the human, not canine, sense.Onwards to Jamie Lembeck's memorial service, Canada, and points above, below, and beyond.

+ Yours Truly +

Yours Truly began writing poetry and making images with her father's Kodak 620 at the insightful age of seven. Some details have changed. Many journeys have been taken. Many images made. Much ink and pixels spilled, shared, commissioned, and the like.